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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Residents across the Tri-State area were cleaning up after wild weather tore through the region on Monday.

On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service confirmed an EF-0 tornado touched down on Monday around 11 a.m. from northern Greenwich to northern Stamford, Conn.

The NWS had previously confirmed that an EF-0 tornado, packing winds up to 85 mph, hit parts of New Jersey.

That twister touched down at 9:17 a.m. in Berkeley Heights in Union County. Forecasters say the twister was on the ground for about 10 minutes and cut a path of about 50 yards wide and 4.8 miles long through New Providence and Summit.

“Almost like a locomotive. Like a train coming through,” he said. “It was pretty scary. You can only imagine if it was worse, what kind of damage it would do. We’re not used to that type of weather in this area and hopefully we won’t have it again.”

“It was the first time ever that my emergency BlackBerry went off. I got a little concerned about it since I never had it [go off]. So, if I’ve never had it [go off], it must be big. So, we went down to the basement in my home,” he said.

Bruno added the twister left devastation in its wake.

“This is the worst damage I’ve seen even through Sandy in one specific area,” he told Brown.

Investigators said the damage pattern was consistent with a tornado — trees twisted in different directions, snapped near the roots and debris scattered by high winds.

“It looked like a war zone,” another resident said. “There were a number of trees that were down, others were broken in half like toothpicks.”